Orange hit by a national outage on its mobile network

On October 21, Orange experienced a nationwide mobile network outage due to an unspecified incident, affecting calls and SMS for many customers. The company is still investigating the cause of the disruption, which has impacted approximately 21.6 million mobile users in France. Reports of the outage peaked at nearly 12,000 on Downdetector, with some issues also noted for Bouygues Telecom and SFR.